March 18 PA Environment Digest Now Available

The March 18 PA Environment Digest is now available.

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[ Headlines ]

Gov. Wolf Announces Winners Of Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence

PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Planning Steering Committee Meets March 22 To Hear Funding Workgroup Report

Rep. Mehaffie Introduces Bill To Prevent Nuclear Power Plant Closures Which Will Cost $500 Million Annually

PJM Tells 2 House Committees Competitive Electric Markets Significantly Reduced Prices For PA Ratepayers; Grid Will Remain Reliable Into The Future

Auditor General DePasquale Calls For State Action On Climate Change, Brace For New Costs

Attorney General, Delaware County DA Conducting Joint Investigation Into Mariner East Pipelines

14 Senate, House Members Ask Gov. Wolf To Halt Mariner East Pipeline Operations Until Safety Protocols Are In Place

DEP Reaches Settlement On Diversified Gas & Oil Abandoned Conventional Wells

DEP To Discuss Draft Regs Controlling VOC [Methane] Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations At March 21 Advisory Board Meeting

Commonwealth Court Clears The Way For Attorney General To Pursue Unfair Trade Practices Case Against Chesapeake, Anadarko On Drilling Royalties, Payments

Keep PA Beautiful Engages Nearly 130,000 Volunteers To Remove Over 7.2 Million Pounds Of Trash In 2018

DEP/Health Announce New Statewide Tick Surveillance Program, Part Of A 5-Year Study Of Tickborne Illnesses In PA

Agriculture Extends Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Area To Dauphin County

Business Owners: Do I Need A Spotted Lanternfly Permit Webinar March 21

R. Timothy Weston To Receive PA Bar Assn. Environmental & Energy Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award

Game Commission Manager Lauren Ferreri Recognized For Conservation Achievements

April 5 PA Wildlife Gala To Raise Money For Wildlife Conservation & Education

[ News From The Capitol ]

Senate/House Bills Moving Last Week

Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced

House Committee To Consider Bill Creating Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force March 18

House Environmental Committee Meets March 19 To Consider Bill Allowing Cross Unit Drilling Under Several Properties

House Tourism & Recreation Committee Holds March 19 Info Meeting On PA Parks & Forests Foundation Infrastructure Needs Report

House Bill Would Give Either Senate Or House Environmental Committee A Veto Over Any DEP Groundwater Withdraw Regulations

Senators Killion, Dinniman Introduce Resolution Forming Senate/House Commission To Make Recommendations To Improve Pipeline Safety, Construction Practices

Senators Ask Colleagues To Sign On To Bipartisan Bill To Increase Renewable Energy Purchases By Utilities From 8% to 30% By 2030

[ The Feds ]

President Signs Bill To Permanently Reauthorize Federal Land & Water Conservation Fund

Chesapeake Bay Foundation Opposed To Proposed 90% Cut In Federal Bay Funding

Choose Clean Water Coalition Pushing For More Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Funding

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Seeks Public Comments On Conservation Practice Standards

[ Water ]

DEP, Lycoming College Host Open House March 18 In Williamsport For Landowners, Municipalities Seeking To Work In Streams Impacted By Flooding

Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award To Recognize PA Farmer With $10,000 Prize

Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Offering: Small Watershed & Innovative Nutrient & Sediment Reduction Grants

NRCS-PA Now Accepting Applications For Funding To Protect Wetlands, Farmland On Working Farms

Chesapeake Conservancy Seeking Volunteers To Identify, Collect Livestakes In Centre, Northumberland March 19, 24

Bay Journal Op-Ed: Healthy Trees, Forests Are Great Cure For What Ails Chesapeake Bay

New Online Course Provides In-Depth Understanding Of Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience For Educators

March 19 Penn State Water Insights Seminar Highlights Stroud Water Center's Research On Soil Health

PUC Highlights Importance of Safe Drinking Water During-- Fix A Leak Week

Feature - What We Owe To Pennsylvania’s Rachel Carson

[ Mine Subsidence ]

Opportunity To Bid On DEP Mine Subsidence Control Project In Lackawanna County

[ Lead ]

DEP: Soil Samples At A Park, Day Care Center In Palmerton, Carbon County Exceed Lead Standard

Dept. Of Human Services Explores Use Of Medicaid Funds For Lead Exposure Prevention And Remediation Initiative

[ Air ]

EQB Publishes Proposed Fine Particulate Matter Regulations For Comment, 3 Hearings Set

[ Energy ]

DEP Proposes Water Quality Certification For Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Project In Eastern PA

Proposed Water Quality Certification Published For Columbia Case East & West Pipeline Project, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion Counties

PUC Approves Duquesne Light Filing For Third-Party Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Vista Energy Marketing To Pay $52,700 Penalty To PUC In Door-To-Door Energy Sales Case

Penn State To Host Eastern Collegiate Mine Rescue Contest March 30

Court: Injection Well Developer Does Not Need To Wait To Challenge A Local Zoning Decision Until It Has Permits For The Well

[ Education ]

PA Chamber’s Annual Environmental Conference & Trade Show April 23 In Hershey

[ Sustainability ]

The Hershey Company Announces Action Plans To Protect, Restore Forests In Cocoa Growing Region

[ Forests - Recreation - Land Conservation ]

Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Awards College Scholarships To 5 Students

Registration Now Open For 25th Delaware River Sojourn June 14-22

DCNR Now Accepting Applications For Volunteer Fire Company Wildfire Fighting Grants

Applications Now Being Accepted For Schuylkill Highlands Landscape Mini-Grants

Chestnut Hill Conservancy Protects 2 Properties In Philadelphia

PA Land Trust Assn. Offers Guides On Land Conservation, Allowing Land Encroachments

Allegheny Land Trust Releases Full Schedule Of Environmental Education Activities, Events

[ Wildlife ]

Tiadaghton Audubon: How The Fate Of The Florida Sparrow Impacts Pennsylvania, March 20, Wellsboro, Tioga County

[ Environmental Heritage ]

On March 27 Penn State Harrisburg Will Mark 40th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island Accident

Feature-- 40 Years Ago Pennsylvanians Woke Up To The Accident At Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979

PHMC: 18 New State Historical Markers Approved, Include Several Related To PA’s Environmental Heritage

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